Golf score register



Nov. 22, 1932. J. FREELANDER GOLF SCORE REGISTER Filed Oct. 2, 1930 m Ma i? Z? Zlfa/zwn 1/1), ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 22, 1932 PATENT OFFICE JULIUS FREELANDER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI GOLF SCORE REGISTER Application filed October 2, 1930.

My invention relates to improvements in golf score registers.

One of the objects of my invention is the provision of a novel score register, which can be utilized for keeping the scores of a plurality of players, which enables each shot to be registered as played, which occupies small space and is easy and convenient to carry, which has novel indicators for registering the strokes taken for each hole by each player, said indicators having novel means for pre venting their accidental disadjustment, while the register is being carried, the register hav ing means for serving also as a pencil holder.

A further object of my invention is the provision of a novel score register, which is simple, cheap, durable, not likely to get out of order, which is easy to operate and eflieient in its operation.

The novel features of my invention are hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates the preferred embodiment of my invention,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of my improved score register.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional View of the same, partly broken away.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged end view of the same.

Fig. 4: is an enlarged side elevation of a portion of the register.

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 of Fig. l.

Similar characters of reference designate similar parts in the different views.

My improved score register is provided with a tubular member 1, having four sides, and preferably square in cross section. One end of the member 1 is closed by a cap 2, which in its inner end is provided with a groove 3 in which are fitted and secured, as by soldering, the adjacent ends of the four sides of the member 1.

The other end of the member 1 is provided with a cap 4 having at its inner end a groove 5, similar to the groove 3 in which are fitted and secured the adjacent ends of the four sides of the member 1. The cap 4 is provided with a longitudinal hole or opening 6, Figs. 2 and 3, communicating with the interior of member 1 and adapted to receive a pencil,

Serial No. 485,923.

whereby the member 1 is adapted to serve as a pencil holder as well as a score register.

Each side of the member 1 is provided with a longitudinal row of indicators, eighteen in number, which respectively represent 18 holes of a golf course.

Each of said indicators 1s provided with an arcuate row 7 of characters, such as the numerals 1 to 9, respectively representing the 0 merals of said indicator. Said pointer 8 is movable from an initial position into register with any of the numerals 1 to 9. The inner side of each pointer is slightly concave, and, as the pointer is of resilient material, such as spring brass or steel, or aluminum, and is held compressed by the rivet 9 against the memher 1, it will not be liable to accidental disadjustment from the position to which it may be adjusted.

To further protect the pointers 8 from catching on the clothing and being thereby disadjustcd, each of the indicators has an arcuate raised rib 1O concentric with the adjacent row 7 of numerals and at the outer side thereof and at the outer side of the pointer 8 adjacent thereto.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 4c, the ribs 10 in each row of indicators abut against each other, the upper ends of each rib, excepting the upper one of the row, abutting against the lower side of the rib next above. The ribs 10 extend from said member 1 to the planes respectively of the pointers 8. Each rib 10, excepting the lower one of the row, is disposed in the path of the pointer 8 next below, thereby serving as a stop which prevents the pointer being retracted in the clock-wise direction past its initial position, that is the zero position. This arrangement of the ribs 10 also conserves length of the register.

For attaching the register to the pocket of the person keeping the score, the cap 2 has attached to it a spring clip 11, similar to sup porting clips commonly applied to pencils, and which is adapted for engagement in the well known manner with a coat or shirt pocket.

In the use of the register, as each player makes a shot, the keeper of the score moves the pointer 8 of the indicator, representing the hole which is being played in the row representing that players score, into register with the next numeral in advance. Thus, if a player makes a hole in four shots, the pointer 8 of the indicator representing that hole, as hole 1, in the players row, will have been moved into register with the adjacent numeral 4. Or if eight shots are taken to make the hole, the pointer will register with the numeral 8. As the shots are consecutively registered,v the scores are kept without liability of error, and the score of each player, at any stage, is registered. At the end of a game, the total score is "67 ascertained by adding together the numerals A which are in register with the pointers of the row of indicators which is being computed.

The indicators of each row may be designated in any suitable way, as by marking the pointers 8 of the row with the numerals 1 to 18 respectively, designating the holes of the course, as shown.

I do not limit my invention. to the structure shown and described, as many modifications, within the scope of the appended claim, may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim. is

In a golf score register, a member having on its exterior a plurality of arcuate rows of characters representing strokes, pointers pivoted to said member respectively centrally with respect to said rows, and arcuate raised gm ribs on said member concentric with said rows respectively and partly encircling said pointers the tip of a pointer being spaced from the member a distance less than the heightof a cooperating rib, said ribs serving as stops for adjacent ones of said pointers, each of said ribs having its ends abutting against one of said ribs next thereto.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

JULIUS FREELANDER. 

